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OUTGOING Technology Minister Lord Carter is shortly expected to recommend that, for the first time in its history, the BBC should be forced to give up some of its Pounds 3.6billion publicly-funded budget.
The peer - a rumoured front-runner for the post of ITV chief executive - says that Pounds 130million of this huge pot should be pumped into some of the BBC's troubled commercial rivals instead, including ITV, to fund regional news programmes.See the full content of this document
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Halting the march of the bloated BBC ; COMMENT [Scot Region]
Certainly, the BBC's growing ubiquity cannot go unchallenged. I...
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